With 36 tenure-track faculty members, 8 full-time instructors, 130 graduate students, more than 550 undergraduates, and $2.6M (3-yr running average) in annual research expenditures, the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) consistently ranks among the top 100 electrical and computer engineering schools nationally by U.S .News and World Report. EECS houses one of the few NSF National Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC), called CDADIC, and is a key member of another IUCRC, called PSERC.
Our electrical and computer engineering programs encompass Computer Engineering; Control, Communications, and Signal Processing; Electrophysics; Energy and Power Systems; and, Microelectronics. Our computer science program covers Algorithms; Artificial Intelligence; Bioinformatics; Distributed Computing; Graphics; Human Computer Interaction; Networking and Communication Systems; and, Software Engineering.
EECS remains at the forefront of these research fields while educating and training the next generation of engineers – we are “Developing Minds and Changing the World.”
WSU ACM to host Microsoft XNA workshop
The WSU ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) will be hosting a Microsoft XNA workshop by Charles Cox on Sunday March 2nd. There will be food, both breakfast and lunch for those who attend. The ACM's goal is to help computer science and computer engineering students stay connected to companies in the field. This upcoming workshop will be lead by Microsoft's Charles Cox, and it will be about XNA 2.0. You will be able to make games that can run on any system that supports the XNA framework, this includes XP, Vista, Xbox 360, and hopefully Zune in the near future.
You will learn more about the ACM and XNA at the workshop. Hope to see you there on Sunday, March 2nd.
Bringing Home the Apple (Genome) Cup: WSU, UW Spearhead International Project to Sequence Rosaceae DNA
PULLMAN, Wash. – Scientists at Washington State University and the University of Washington are spearheading a public, international effort to map and unlock the secrets of the apple genome to develop better tree fruit faster.
“The Washington apple is an icon of quality around the globe,” said Dan Bernardo, dean of the WSU College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences. “This is a natural home for the advanced science necessary to map the tree fruit genome and actively study how it functions.”
WSU’s Agricultural Research Center is providing seed money for the project as part of its larger investment in basic and applied plant science programs. “Investing in this program is a matter of building on our strengths in horticulture to leverage bottom-line results for industry,” said Ralph Cavalieri, associate dean and ARC director.
Recent News
- Researchers at WSU, Auburn University, and the University of Hawaii have received a National Science Foundation grant to develop, test, and disseminate new methods for teaching computer science to undergraduates.
- Yan Wan is the recipient of 2007 College of Engineering and Architecture Graduate Student Excellence Award.
- CDADIC will develop nanoscale circuits for defense and intelligence systems, which may lead advanced consumer electronics.